Another Culprit in Dying Bee Fiasco?

At first it was simply labeled sudden hive collapse, and they had a few guesses as to what was the cause.

Then it was a type of mite. That report was out of March of 2011.

Now they seem to have some evidence of a parasitic fly that infects the honey bee with it's larva and basically turns it into a zombie. Hijacking the bee is a pretty useful way to keep you larva warm and provide the eventual first whole food meal.

Here's a link to a recent story about it.

Bee's are far too important to the world's food supply for scientists to ignore the baffling and spiking rates of hive colony collapse.

I had a story I was working on a half dozen years ago that used the recurring imagery of repeating black and yellow stripes, and I had worked a set of distinct solitary and random set of dead bees into scenes.

Living in San Luis at the time I'd noticed randomly at more times than ever before single dead unsquashed honeybees on the sidewalk or street. I thought it was weird enough that it eventually blossomed into this strange story (that is as yet unfinished) about absurdity, Venetian blinds, newly paved streets, the slow churning of The New, and dead bees.

Come to think of it, it was eight to nine years ago, while Corrie was abroad and I lived at Oceanaire.

Damn...the slow churn of The New right here...